Let the Right One In
Choreographed by Alexandra Beller
“Choreographer Beller also smooths out some of Thorne’s disjointed transitions, using the ensemble as a kind of Greek chorus and creating the feel of a hand-held camera, as ensemble members silently shift the set pieces, moving them around in circles or across the stage even as the characters remain stationary in bed, on a couch, or seated in a chair. The total silence as the ensemble moves the actors in almost random directions adds to the unsettling feeling that this world is seriously off-kilter”—Boston Globe
All photos by Annie Kao
Let the Right One In
Based on novel and film by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Adapted for stage by Jack Thorne
Presented by Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Directed by Christopher Edwards Choreographed by Alexandra Beller
Oct 22-Nov 6, 2022
A dark and visceral coming-of-age vampire love story, based on the acclaimed novel and film.
Oskar is a bullied, lonely, teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rocks the neighbourhood.
Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn't know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time'
Jack Thorne's adaptation of Let The Right One In premiered in June 2013 at the Dundee Rep Theatre in a production by the National Theatre of Scotland, before transferring to London's Royal Court Theatre in November 2013.
“Leah Hohauser is enticingly physical, moving with choreographic grace about the stage. But she can be a demon as well as a dancer: when Hohauser’s hands curve into claws and she arches her back — watch out!”—Bill Marx, the arts fuse
